Systems Engineer

FlightAware is the largest aviation web site in the world, serving more than 500M pages / month. We process over 40 million incoming messages an hour from over 45 individual data feeds—over 150 gigabytes a day and growing—to provide the best, most complete, and most accurate real-time flight-tracking service in the industry.

FlightAware needs talented and motivated IT professionals to reliably and consistently operate FlightAware's large infrastructure of FreeBSD and Linux servers in Houston, Dallas, New York, and London.

Serve as part of a rotating on-call for infrastructure or operational problems.

Qualifications

Strong Unix skills (FreeBSD or Linux preferred)

Juniper JunOS, Cisco IOS or similar familiarity

Experience with PostgreSQL, MySQL, or equivalent.

Excellent communication skills (both verbal and written).

Knowledge of at least one programming or scripting language.

Understanding of the FlightAware web site

Able to think on your feet and adapt well to a quickly changing environment, and work effectively with minimal supervision.

Ideally, you have:

Experience deploying and managing big data technologies and systems.

An understanding of containerization technologies such as Docker, LXC, Jails, or Zones.

A working understanding of IPv6.

Professionally, you’re driven to execute, deliver, and complete projects independently, seeking advice and direction from team members when needed, and plowing ahead to completion when the path forward is clear. You’re naturally curious, exploring new technologies to stay current, but balancing the use of new and old to ensure that execution is a priority.

Being a pilot, or an individual looking to pursue his or her private pilot license, is a big plus.

Career Growth

Promotion opportunities to Senior Systems Engineer, Director of IT Operations.